Part 11: Due December 2017,Jan, Feb, March 2018

[AshFind]

How exciting! But scary lol 7 weeks and my baby room looks disastrous... I can not go before dh family lives a couple hours north of us and we’ve already booked our room Christmas night since we will be traveling to see them. I’ll be 2 hours from the hospital.


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[Pbn3]

Gorgeous pic Ash [emoji7]

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[AshFind]

Thank you pbn [emoji4]


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[4blue2pink]

Ash your brave travelling that far!! make sure you hold her in till after your Christmas trip!!

[Bluebooties]

Mum of 4 and srg are at the top of the list unless of course u can beat them to it Ash [emoji4]

Wow its getting closer and closer by the day. I am all set though for baby to show up. Just need to buy a few wardrobe items and that can be last minute if need be. I have to book newborn pictures but for some reason am just not feeling excited enough to go ahead and make the call. MFM said if babies continues to be small they might make be go to the hosp 2 hours away to deliver "for better care" but i will have to say no as i cant afford to do that with husband working and 3 other kids to be looked after.

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[AshFind]

Blue was baby still small at your last scan?


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[Bluebooties]

Yes Ash. I might have a premie (based on weight not gestational age) on my hands so holding off on buying baby clothes until the final weight estimation on my last scheduled scan.

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[LMSM]

Happy Monday ladies!

4b2p – wow, how do you keep the growing belly from the kids? Don’t they notice? (my DD1 already tells me I have a big fat tummy haha) It must be quite an amazing surprise for them!
Sounds like you will be at peace with whichever gender. As you said, you have been able to be so serene about it, no doubt, especially because you do have several of each gender, you will be content either way though I know you would love another girl! Can’t wait for you to find out though ^^ there will be some major stalking on coming weeks with all you ladies so close to countdown in days
Re scan, I saw my GP on Friday and she did say she will give me a referral when I see her at 28 weeks for my anti-D injection, so I can have a scan at 34 w, phew as for a homebirth, as much as am a rational mind, that was my dream but here in Queensland, it is not publicly funded – so forking out $5K for a midwife just isn’t possible. I just hope stars will align well so I can go to hospital and meet my midwife there at the 1st niggle – they say 3rd babies are the wild card s it could even be longer than the other 2 labours, who know! – if not, we will hope that a birth at home unassisted goes well… I will ask my midwife to “train” me up as much as possible, so I can train hubs & we can be prepared. I must admit the idea of just going into my own bed after birth and not worrying about back and forth between hospital and home sounds heavenly! Kids waking up to meet their new sibling must be so magical!

PBN - how special is the story for your girl name! love William too! Not long before you get to choose when you lock eyes with that new little human

Sky – we don’t have a name for her either :P do you have a few ideas at least for your little man?
I like Sophia – hubs likes Zoe – DD1 likes Sophia not Zoe, and DD2 likes Zoia (which turns out, actually is a name) lol
So many girl names out there – and I find it hard to choose when I was so set on a boy and I’m on girl #3 :P
I like Anna too, but that’s my mum’s name… so hubby is like NO. I do love Margaux (if I had had my way that would have been DD1’s name).
Like you, I hate the whole “what are you having, boy or girl?”, as if that was THE defining factor – so many times have I had “ oh you’re pregnant – it’s a boy right?” (like it HAD to be, and I failed by not producing one)– I just want to say “We are hoping for human but we won’t be too picky if it just is healthy” :P

Ash – what a cute bump – so miss the cold winters to get into the Xmas mood the smell of a real pine Xmas tree – here, it is nice, but not quite the same vibe haha
I’m sure you’ll manage to get the important stuff sorted before she arrives – the rest if not done, will fall into place…also, thought about you yesterday, we had a pic nic at a park with a big playground, and my DD1 played with a bigger girl – turns out she was called Esmae – a very sweet pretty girl – suited her well!

Mommy – only a few days to see bub again!!!
The symptoms are reassuring – as uncomfortable as they can be, they sure are a good sign

XX – Olivian is such a cutie pie!! Sounds like she is settling in so well and everyone is smitten beyond words Girls clothes are pretty adorable – you must be indulging in that department hehe (admittedly, as cute as they are, I am a bit over it – I wanted overalls and cute boys Tshirts, for a change lol)

Dancing – agree with what the ladies said, if it all makes you so nervous and sets you up for disappointment, you definitely would be better up finding out sooner rather than at birth – I know, like Max, it really helped me come to terms with it knowing early so I had time to get excited about the arrival of bub ..
And it may still be a boy, I have a feeling for you it is!
There’s got to be a way to compromise – as much as Dh’s position is valid – he may not realise the tsunami of GD can be on top of post-partum “normal” feelings already…. Hope you guys can find that middle ground where you both feel right about it all

Bluebooties – I think your 3 first weren’t big babies either anyways, were they? so maybe have you got a few gender neutral outfits that would do the trick for the 1st few days?
If bub really measures small at that last scan, buy a couple of small outfits for D-day and then shop afterwards – baby really won’t care about the actual color or outfit as long as she/he is warm and snug

Hi to everybody else too – hope you’re well!!! Shann, hope Benjamin is well, and you too!!

21 weeks, and +6 kilos – yikes, for my previous pregnancies didn’t hit that weight gain until about week 26-28…guess I can expect to get biiig lol
Sooo my SIL’s scan is actually on Wednesday – I think having seen the 12-w nub that we can expect it to be another boy – ah well! I do, for her sake, hope it is a girl but I think it is unlikely. I guess I will be able to buy boy stuff for nephews again
You remember me mentioning that I had a lump under my toe weeks ago? At first it was really painful – so saw the GP, went to do an ultrasound – and turns out that it’s a small foreign object – what, who knows but since it doesn’t bother me anymore (lump still there though), we’ll not excise it and just leave it be for now – but what on earth could it be?? Gosh sometimes I swear my body does the weirdest things lol
Picked up a pram the other day – bargain at $50 (it’s Mylo from Mamas and Papas, hope it’s good!) – will only use it little given bub will be carried and school is literally 2-minutes walk from our place – but I figured, it’d be good to have a bassinette that I could click onto the stroller for when she sleeps at pick up time so as not to wake her… it is second hand, and the main body of the bassinette is white, it’s not dirty but has a few marks – suggestions to clean it nicely and safely for bub (I don’t think I can remove the cover from the bassinette) ???
DD2 keeps saying when she sees it in the garage – ‘it’s for the baby in your tummy? Can I put my baby inside?’ (she drags a couple – at least – of babies around all the time, kisses them, rocks them - sooo cute, can’t wait to see her with her new sister! DD1 just wants to change her “all by herself” and feed her haha, she can’t keep her hands off my tummy, which is adorable too )
Anyhoo, hope all is well! Sorry for the novel :P

[Bluebooties]

Yes LMSM my babies are not real big but the OB is sounding as if this one will be smaller than my other babies. Anyway yeah i plan on buying a few newborn and premie outfits with return receipt a few weeks in advance of my induction date and then buy more later. Won't be able to reuse a lot of DD3xs outfits as she was a summer baby and this baby will be born in the peak of our winter season.

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[LMSM]

Oh somehow I thought your girls were on the small side too
I think your plan is good – bub won’t be naked anyways haha